Episode Details

Gazit is a coach, author, and founder of the Rooted Cooperative. She brings together lived experience and professional practice to help people better understand their nervous systems, embrace their authentic identities, and create lives rooted in self-compassion rather than cultural expectations.

After years of navigating autism, complex trauma, chronic health challenges, and a lifelong search for belonging, Gazit discovered that healing isn’t about becoming someone else — it’s about learning to listen to your body, question limiting beliefs, and make space for who you truly are.

In this honest and hopeful conversation, Gazit shares:

• Who she was in her deeply painful 20s

• Trying to suppress her queer identity in an evangelical environment

• The suicide attempt at 21 and waking up to total loss of community

• Why so many of us build lives around cultural expectations instead of our needs

• The power of questioning “what if this is legitimate?”

• Meeting people outside the bubble and realizing other lives are possible

• Healing through self-compassion, body awareness, and authenticity

If you’re in your 20s struggling with identity, belonging, cultural pressure, or feeling like there’s no way forward, this episode offers real hope and a different path.

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Connect with Gazit Chaya

Website:https://therootedcoop.com/

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/gazitchayankosi

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Chapters

0:00 - Intro & Welcome Gazit

1:40 - Her 20s: No Hope and Trying to Suppress Identity

8:15 - Evangelical Upbringing & Feeling Hated by God

15:30 - The Suicide Attempt at 21

23:10 - Losing Family and Every Friend

31:45 - Why We Build Lives Around Cultural Expectations

40:20 - Learning to Question and Consider Your Own Needs

48:50 - Meeting People Outside the Bubble

57:15 - Self-Compassion, Body Awareness & Authentic Living